Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting this evening in the Common Room at 7.30 o'clock, the Lowell House Scientific Society will hear Charles S. Draper, assistant professor of Aeronautical Engineering at M. I. T. who will speak on stunt flying and will show flight movies...
John K. Fairbank '39, instructor in History, will speak on the question, "Should the U. S. Help England in China?" in the fifth of The Harvard Guardian's fall series of fifteen-minute radio programs over Station WAAB and the Colonial network at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, November 1. Fairbank will review the background of the present situation in the Far East and discuss America's position and interests...
...TIME, Oct. 11, you speak of an Alabaman. There is no such word. The spelling in universal practice in our State is Alabamian...
...debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican and one of the first big businessmen to speak out sternly against the 18th Amendment...
...Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare not use. To please North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...